Here's some background on Wos from Progress NC.org:

http://paytoplaypat.progressnc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/02/price_of_power_final_small.pdf

"Aldona Wos, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, was
previously McCrory’s campaign chair. As a major bundler of campaign
cash, Wos, her husband and employees of their family company, New
Breed Logistics, have given at least $241,497 to the McCrory cause (see
Appendix II). That includes a $25,000 corporate donation from New Breed
to the Republican Governors Association."

--Aldona Wos -- the new Health and Human Services Secretary, has a medical degree but no experience in public health and has never run a government agency. Her business, New Breed Logistics, is one of the 3 biggest donors to McCrory, along with Art Pope and Duke Energy.

http://bluenc.com/my-email-morning-my-legislators

Someone posting on Blue NC wrote this letter with some good questions to their reps this morning about this:
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"Here is the email I sent this morning to Rep. Joe Sam Queen (D-Haywood) and Sen. Jim Davis (R-Macon).

Gentlemen: Care to comment on yesterday's report in the Raleigh News & Observer that one Joe Hauck was paid $228,000 over 8 months as a consultant to DHHS Secretary Alana Wos?

DHHS Spokesman Ricky Diaz defended the consulting contract in a statement. This is the same Ricky Diaz who, at 24 years of age and with absolutely zero public health policy experience, enjoys a taxpayer-funded salary of $85,000, including a $23,000 raise after a few months on the job.

What kind of racket is DHHS running? Is this agency's budget being used as a slush fund to reward campaign aides and big-money contributors? Meanwhile, working class North Carolina residents, school teachers, firefighters, police, state troopers, and others are being told to sit down, shut up, and be thankful you have a job at any wage. Hospitals are closing down, teachers are paying for classroom supplies out of their own pockets, and the courts are bogging down in a backlog of cases.

This came after the Governor and his business executive Budget Director "found" $10 million in a blatant attempt to pander to teachers. Isn't the Budget Director the state's model of the ideal businessman - selling cheap imported goods to low wage workers who can't afford anything else? How does a competent business executive "find" $10 million after months of budget negotiations and legislative action?

Who's in charge? Who's minding the store? Who's allowing these shenanigans? Someone's obviously doing a heckuva job."

http://www.wral.com/dhhs-sec-wos-email-to-lawmakers-/12859615/

Excerpt about Joe Hauck:

"Joe is an accomplished leader with 35 years of executive management experience across the entire spectrum of business operations and communications disciplines. He provides solid business insight with an ability to ascertain and analyze organizational requirements, forecast goals, streamline operations, and execute new program concepts. Upon arriving at the Department, he immediately conducted an evaluation of the operations of the Department to identify key weaknesses in the existing structure. Additionally, he assisted me in restructuring and recruiting an executive team that will bring long-term efficiency and results to the Department.

Joe also undertook an in-depth examination of financial issues that have historically plagued the Department and has begun implementing corrective actions, already achieving millions in savings without compromising services. He continues to be a strong project manager and assist me with management restructuring efforts. Among his many accomplishments, he:

Created a plan to reduce the funds expended on temporary agency workers in our psychiatric facilities by recruiting and retaining more state-employee health care professionals at competitive salaries, which will reduce vacancies in our facilities while improving the care we provide to our most vulnerable patients and is additionally estimated to save the state in excess of $1.25 million annually;
Developed a plan to achieve $5 million in savings in payments to non-profits supported by the Department, without reducing services; and
Expanded the Office of Internal Audit, allowing the Department to increase and improve its oversight and accountability to reduce waste and responsibly manage the hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts it oversees.

You no doubt recognize several of these efforts, as you gave us approval to execute these plans in your recent budget."

They don't even try to hide it.

My colleagues complained endlessly about Perdue and how "corrupt" she was. Most of that happened before I got here, but I'm betting she was nowhere near as bad as this crowd.

the NC RethugliCons can't even carry out corruption intelligently. So blatant and arrogant as they cheerfully reward their friends and cut the budgets.

These people do not care to govern--that is NOT their objective. If it weren't so easy to carry out their money-making schemes, they'd be in some other line of work.

It's not about governing in the public service sense. It's about exploitation.



Their role model ^^^^^